john dickerson is our cbs news political director. on the other side, dee dee myers, press secretary for president clinton, contributor to "vanity fair," and david gergen, who is at harvard. pecky, let me just start with you. what do you think the impact of this storm is going to be? did it hurt romney? did it help the president? >> well the impact in the northeast itself has just been very bad. a lot of people suffering up there. some people calling it their katrina in a very unhappy way, of course, in part because it's cold. it's a cold katrina. and people are without heat and electricity. seats very tough. how does it play politically? we'll know in retrospect, i think like everything else, in this race. it is not known at this point how it will play. you can argue that the president looked commanding and like a leader when he came up to new jersey. you could also argue that things are starting to look a little tough in some of the neighborhood neighborhoods in new york and jersey, and so that might work against him. it's hard to s